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Message to Minnesota USAPL Lifters - State Records
Posted By: Cheryl Anderson
Date: Tuesday, 21 April 2009, at 9:46 a.m.
From October 2008 until the 2009 Minnesota State Meet this past February, a major project took place that affected the Minnesota USAPL powerlifting records -- allowing them to be examined with fresh sets of eyes, corrected, restored, updated, re-organized for clarity, and polished-up with a brand-new, consistent format. I was asked to take on the voluntary job of State Record Keeper by our state chair and accepted the opportunity.
The original/old state records files (before I began to update them) were captured and saved in HTML format from the state USAPL website, as well as passed along to me in Word docs (labeled “updated” as of Oct. 27-30, 2008), which I have saved. In both formats, our state records were missing information (including entire sets of weight class and division records), were disorganized, and contained numerous mistakes, causing several of our members to miss receiving credit for their lifting accomplishments over the past months or years.
These records had been maintained for 10 years by the same person, never updated or corrected corrected by any other volunteers until that point.
Powerlifting records kept inaccurately can cause a chain reaction of mistakes throughout several years, affecting a number of lifters -- until someone finally goes back, locates the correct info, and restores them to the correct data. This can be an extremely time-consuming and tedious job that requires patience, attention to detail, and -- most of all -- caring enough to cross-check your work with past meet results, and even using the past years’ rankings lists to locate and verify the “true” records as they should be.
With help from other lifters including, and especially, Mitch Edelstein, I voluntarily worked to not only update our state powerlifting records and reformat them to spreadsheets convertible to PDF files, but to also restore the large number of missing records and correct many, many mistakes (ranging from incorrect dates to incorrect poundages). Mitch used his familiarity with many lifters to provide full names and exact dates of competitions where available, as well as lift corrections; and he suggested using kilos in addition to pounds. We took things a few steps further and went though the full meet records and matched them to past meet results and USAPL rankings database lists for accuracy.
Mistakes and human error can happen, yes. But entire weight classes missing, wrong names in place of other lifters, and records that had never been credited in the last 4-5 years -- to name just a few of the “mistakes” -- we felt were unacceptable. The number of these instances totaled in excess of 30 occurrences.
The number of restorations, corrections and updates affected 18 USAPL Minnesota lifters, listed below. If you see your name on this list, you have been positively affected by the restorations and corrections that Mitch and I made (this process had been also been reviewed by Angela Simons, Joe Warpeha and Tom Hines). One or more of your state records had been corrected, or were restored after being deleted or “getting lost,” or they were given overdue credit for the first time (3 need to have their records found and restored):
Angela Simons
Jane Larsen-Welborn
Cheryl Anderson
Peter Wong
Tony Scheldrup
Paul Wong
Pat Beaumaster
Tony Reid
Sean McDermott
Brad Gillingham
Phillip Markert
Tammy Dian
Cheri Schouweiler
Joel Ford
John DorsherThese lifters' records had been deleted when the 97 lb. Junior Women Powerlifting state records were found to be deleted, and the class/division has been placed back (but info still missing as it cannot be found):
Kacie Groves
K. Milbrandt
A. Peterson(My own 97 lb. class records had been deleted completely - from the powerlifting Open and Junior divisions, as well as from the bench single-lift records. If I hadn’t known my own records, I would not have been able to restore them. Therefore, these are missing.)
For full details of all corrections and restorations that we made to the MN USAPL records, please see below.
A comparison of these, to the “original” (old) state record files, can be made by obtaining the original/old files from USAPL Vice President Johnny Graham at (email address).
I no longer update the state records, as the former state record keeper who had resigned from this task, apparently later wanted his job back and the new state chair asked me to "give a little" and hand them back.
It had never communicated to the MN members that USAPL had new volunteers who stepped up to the task when needed, and had spent the time to do this work.
Thank you; it was a great opportunity to help our fellow state lifters get the well-deserved updates, corrections and credit for the PL accomplishments they worked hard to achieve.
Cheryl Anderson
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USAPL Minnesota State Record corrections, updates and restorations that were made by Cheryl Anderson, with assistance from Mitch Edelstein
October 2008 to end of January 2009
Open Women - Powerlifting
97 lb. class - ENTIRE SET OF RECORDS MISSING
*SQ restored to 260 for Cheryl Anderson
*BP restored to 172 for Cheryl Anderson
*DL restored to 320 for Cheryl Anderson
*TOTAL restored to 740 for Cheryl Anderson132 lb. class - BP record year incorrect as 2005
*Corrected to 2004 for Angela Simons
148 lb. class - TOTAL incorrect as 984
*TOTAL corrected to 987 for Jane Welborn
Open Men - Powerlifting
123 lb. class - BP record year incorrect as 1992
*Corrected to 2002 for Peter Wong
123 lb. class - DL record info incorrect as G. Baker, 455 (needed updating since Feb. 2006)
*DL corrected to 460 for Tony Scheldrup
148 lb. class - BP record year incorrect as 2007
*Corrected to July 18, 2003 for Paul Wong
165 lb. class - BP record credit incorrectly given to Tony Reid, 430 (wrong weight class) and Pat Beaumaster's correct BP record deleted
*BP corrected/restored to 395 in 1998 for Pat Beaumaster
181 lb. class - DL record not updated for Tony Reid
*DL corrected/updated to 634 for Tony Reid
220 lb. class - BP record credit incorrectly given to Nick Tylutki, 501 in 2008
*BP corrected for first time credit to Sean McDermott, 505 in 2004 (had not had credit for this for four years)
SHW class - DL record credit not updated for Brad Gillingham
*DL corrected/updated to 871, Oct. 4, 2008 for Brad Gillingham
Master Women - Powerlifting
97 lb. class - ENTIRE SET OF RECORDS had been deleted - ALL AGE DIVISIONS
*Restored placeholders but cannot locate the former lifters/records that were there
Master Men - Powerlifting
114 lb. class - ENTIRE SET OF RECORDS had been deleted - ALL AGE DIVISIONS
*Restored placeholders but cannot locate the former lifters/records that were there
220 lb. class - 70-79 division - 281 SQ incorrect
*SQ corrected to 285 for Phillip Markert (needed correction since April 2005)
220 lb. class - 70-79 division - 171 BP incorrect
*BP corrected to 200 for Phillip Markert (needed correction since April 2005)
220 lb. class - 70-79 division - 898 TOTAL incorrect
*TOTAL corrected to 795 for Phillip Markert (needed correction since April 2005)
SHW class - 40-49 division - 859 DL incorrect
*DL corrected to 871 for Brad Gillingham
SHW class - 40-49 division - 2320 TOTAL incorrect
*TOTAL corrected to 2331 for Brad Gillingham
Junior Women - Powerlifting
97 lb. class - ENTIRE SET OF RECORDS had been deleted - ALL AGE DIVISIONS
*Restored placeholders but cannot locate the former lifters/records that were there
(exception for 20-23 division, see below)
NOTE: These are not to be treated as archived records; these are currently active and were missing!97 lb. class - 20-23 division - ENTIRE SET OF RECORDS MISSING
*SQ restored to 55 for Cheryl Esperancilla
*BP restored to 95 for Cheryl Esperancilla
*DL restored to 105 for Cheryl Esperancilla
*TOTAL restored to 255 for Cheryl Esperancilla105 lb. class - 18-19 division - SQ record poundage for K. Milbrandt was missing/deleted
*Restored to 185 lbs. for K. Milbrandt
Junior Men - Powerlifting
114 lb. class - ENTIRE SET OF RECORDS had been deleted - ALL AGE DIVISIONS
*Restored placeholders but cannot locate the former lifters/records that were there
NOTE: These are not to be treated as archived records; these are currently active and were missing!Ungeared Women - Powerlifting
123 lb. class - Open - BP incorrect as 110, Fawn Friday
*BP corrected to 121 for Tammy Dian
198 lb. class - Open - SQ incorrect as 187, Cheri Schouweiler
*SQ corrected to 225 for Cheri Schouweiler
198 lb. class - Open - DL incorrect as 254, Cheri Schouweiler
*DL corrected to 276 for Cheri Schouweiler
198 lb. class - Open - TOTAL incorrect as 187, Cheri Schouweiler
*TOTAL corrected to 617 for Cheri Schouweiler
198 lb. class - 50-59 division - SQ incorrect as 187, Cheri Schouweiler
*SQ corrected to 225 for Cheri Schouweiler
198 lb. class - 50-59 division - DL incorrect as 254, Cheri Schouweiler
*DL corrected to 276 for Cheri Schouweiler
198 lb. class - 50-59 division - TOTAL incorrect as 187, Cheri Schouweiler
*TOTAL corrected to 617 for Cheri Schouweiler
Ungeared Men - Powerlifting
198 lb. class - 40-49 division - DL incorrect as 510, Theron Fonder
*DL corrected to 513 for Joel Ford
242 lb. class - 40-49 division - DL incorrect as 560, John Dorsher
*DL corrected to 573 for John Dorsher
242 lb. class - 40-49 division - TOTAL incorrect as 1309, John Dorsher
*TOTAL corrected to 1317 for John Dorsher
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